Xie Xinxu comes clean about the whole obsessive plan, he manufactured “Gu Yanqing” to be her exact dream man after overhearing her describe one,

Gu Yanqing saves Wu Nongyu from a cadaver attack and gets weirdly possessive about it. They discover the “corpses” are actually Affinity B carriers

Wu Nongyu gets caught up in a violent hijacking, and Xie Xinxu is the one who rescues her, mid-chase, in a genuinely unhinged rescue sequence

Nan Heng’s disbanded family finds each other again after the reset, but episode 38 brings a second, more brutal death toll, Song Yude and Yinzhu killed, Chu Guihong’s descent turning genuinely

Nan Heng and Song Yimeng finally close the distance in episode 35, her telling him she loves him unprompted, followed by their first real consummation.

Nan Heng finally has proof of everything, but the wedding twists it further. The three-way stab scene plays out as feared, except he’d already planned around it

Nan Heng finally outmaneuvers both Chu Guihong and Gao in episode 29. It delivers a huge sense of relief after so many episodes of him taking hit after hit.

Song Yimeng’s cruelty toward Nan Heng right after his own whipping made me genuinely angry. The cliff and CPR scene undid that completely,

This stretch delivers a huge sense of payoff. Nan Heng finally outmanoeuvring both Chu Guihong and Gao, Song Yi Meng working out the truth about Li Shiliu on her own

This is a real turning point for the second-lead romance and set the main plot on a collision course with it.